ARDY-Core-RP-20FPS-Horizon40

ARDY: Autoregressive Diffusion with Hybrid Representation for Interactive Human Motion Generation

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Description:

ARDY is an autoregressive diffusion model designed for interactive motion generation, supporting online text prompting and flexible long-horizon kinematic constraints (root paths/waypoints, full-body keyframes, and sparse joint positions/rotations) with real-time responsiveness.

ARDY-Core-RP-20FPS-Horizon40 was developed by NVIDIA as a part of the ARDY project. It was trained on the Bones Rigplay 1 dataset with the 27-joint "Core" skeleton at 20 fps. See below for other model variants.

This model is ready for commercial or non-commercial use.

License/Terms of Use:

Use of this model is governed by the NVIDIA Open Model Agreement

Deployment Geography:

Global

Use Case:

Developers and researchers with any level of animation experience can use ARDY to generate controllable humanoid motions in their real-time applications. This could include motion planning for humanoid robots, character movement in digital twin and industrial simulations, digital human motion for synthetic data, and animations for games and other interactive applications.

Release Date:

HuggingFace: 07/10/2026 via HuggingFace

Reference:

ARDY: Autoregressive Diffusion with Hybrid Representation for Interactive Human Motion Generation

Model Architecture:

Architecture Type: Diffusion Model <br> Network Architecture: Novel Two-Stage Transformer <br> Number of model parameters: 192 M (denoiser 157 M + motion tokenizer 36 M; text encoder not included)

Input:

Input Type(s): Text, Other: Pose Constraints, History Poses <br> Input Format(s): String, Tensor <br> Input Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D), N-Dimensional (ND) <br> Other Properties Related to Input: History pose duration is max 8 sec.

Output:

Output Type(s): Other: Pose Sequence <br> Output Format: Tensor <br> Output Parameters: N-Dimensional (ND) <br> Other Properties Related to Output: Pose sequence contains global root translation and joint rotations. Output poses have max duration of 8 sec.

Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA's hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.

Software Integration:

Runtime Engines: PyTorch <br> Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:

• NVIDIA Ampere
• NVIDIA Blackwell
• NVIDIA Hopper

Supported Operating System(s): Linux

The integration of foundation and fine-tuned models into AI systems requires additional testing using use-case-specific data to ensure safe and effective deployment. Following the V-model methodology, iterative testing and validation at both unit and system levels are essential to mitigate risks, meet technical and functional requirements, and ensure compliance with safety and ethical standards before deployment.

Model Versions:

• ARDY-Core-RP-20FPS-Horizon40: 27-joint "core" skeleton at 20 fps, 40 frame generation horizon
• ARDY-Core-RP-20FPS-Horizon8: 27-joint "core" skeleton at 20 fps, 8 frame generation horizon
• ARDY-G1-RP-25FPS-Horizon52: 34-joint Unitree G1 robot skeleton at 25 fps, 52 frame generation horizon
• ARDY-G1-RP-25FPS-Horizon8: 34-joint Unitree G1 robot skeleton at 25 fps, 8 frame generation horizon

This repo corresponds to the ARDY-Core-RP-20FPS-Horizon40 model variant. Please refer to the codebase for installation and usage instructions.

Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets:

The model was trained and evaluated using the Bones Rigplay 1 dataset.

Training Dataset:

Data Modality:

• Text
• Other: Human Motion Capture

Text Training Data Size: Less than a Billion Tokens <br> Other Training Data Size: 630 hours of human motion captures <br> Data Collection Method by dataset: Automatic/Sensors <br> Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid: Automated/Human <br> Properties: Contains optical motion capture data with corresponding text descriptions covering a diverse range of behaviors such as locomotion, everyday activities, and gestures. Motions are clipped to 10 sec long and resampled to the desired FPS for training. An LLM is used to augment the dataset with diverse paraphrases of text labels.

Testing Dataset:

Data Collection Method by dataset: Automatic/Sensors <br> Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid: Automated/Human <br> Properties: 70 hours of motion data held out from training. The test split contains motions from content categories not seen in training.

Evaluation Dataset:

Benchmark Score: See codebase for evaluation results. <br> Data Collection Method by dataset: Automatic/Sensors <br> Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid: Automated/Human <br> Properties: Same as test dataset.

Inference:

Acceleration Engine: TensorRT <br> Test Hardware:

• NVIDIA A100
• NVIDIA RTX 4090

Ethical Considerations:

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